> > Given that you could have TCP wrapper functionality enabled if you
> used inetd or xitend, why wouldn't you consider using that approach for
> launching FB?
>
> Our database is not a network service. It will quite happily run doing
> useful things (up to a point) if no one connects. So we want the
> database to start even with no connections.
>

huh?? if noone connects to a database it's just dead meat sitting on your
hard drive!
Alan